Hi all,

I am trying to install kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm on my Mandrake 9.2 box using Rpmdrake 9.2. Although it downloads successfully, the software refuses to install the rpm. It says that it has a bad signature.
I tried using urpmi, and this is what I got:

# urpmi kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm
error: kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD Expected(7db23194325182f533dd99181c183b83) != (6fae6a512c20f1658ad159a25a36261a)
unable to register rpm file
Everything already installed

I had the same trouble with kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm, and I've tried to download the file again manually from several ftp mirrors listed in Mandrake's web site. All of them had the same size and signature, and everyone of them returned to me the same error message.

I've looked in the Software Media Manager, under Manage Keys, and it reports me that the medium update_source has the key 22458a98, from Mandrake Security Team.

Do I have to import a new signature? If so, how can I do it?

Please help me to solve this.

I think that the first thing that you should try is to do the install using the command line rpm command:

rpm -i /wherever.the.rpm.is.located/kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm

See:
man rpm


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I've already done that.

Here's the answer:

# rpm -i kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm
error: kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 22458a98
error: kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed

As you can see, there's really something wrong with this signature checking.

Find the Easy Urpmi site on the net and follow their instructions for updating your urpmi sources.
http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php
Then just use urpmi from the command line. The Mandrake GUI Rpm installer is still a little touchy about sigs but you can get around it with the urpmi commands.
Just watch out about updating the XFree86 packages they could hose the menus(easy getting them back though) if you have X running when you do it.

im having the same problem with updating my kernel sources, but i have no internet access on this computer, i have to copy files via cd. so what can i do to allow me to install the 2.6 source?

You'll have to do it by command line and make sure you have the correct kernel source.

ive tried it via command line, i download the 2.6 source, type rpm -i kernel-source.blah.blah.blah and it tells me i have a bad signature

Are you running the 2.6 kernel and you only want the source file for later app compiling? Or do you want to install the 2.6 kernel?

im already running 2.6(installed via rpm) and i want the source so i can make my wireless card work

Maybe mandrake has put out a bad rpm. You could try the kernel source from www.kernel.org.

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I took your advice about the Easy Urpmi web site. It didn't work. I've got the same error messages.

You know, I am using a default distro installation, with its own update program, and downloading rpms from official mirror sites. Only the kernel source package presents problems.

I just can't believe that Mandrake would screw-up like this, putting something that simply doesn't work available to its users. There's got to be something missing in the install/upgrade process.

If this problem persists, I think I will be forced to put Mandrake 9.2 aside and use some distro that doesn't give me such ridiculous useless problem. I want to use my computer to perform my day-to-day tasks, and not to continually fix system problems.

Tell me people, would you buy a car to spend your evenings changing its tires, or to take you where you want to go?

Please anyone, help me with this problem. I'd really like to continue with Mandrake. After all, it is the best and mos comfortable distro there is for my needs.

Did you try from command line as root

urpmi kernel-2.6-source


It found it and installed right away.


Actually i would be suprized you would critisize mandrake because you "bought a car" then installed ,yourself, the latest and greatest engine and expected mandrake to handle it with no problems.

If your up to playing with the latest and greatest then you must expect some things might not work perfectly.

As for your urpmi problems i would change mirrors and make sure you update urpmi also first. make sure you get good hd lists and everything else.

Yes, I tried it. In fact, it was my very first attempt to install the kernel source rpm after the Rpmdrake failure.

Regarding my early comment, there are issues and ISSUES. I've been using Linux since 1997, and Mandrake since version 7.2. I have encountered problems before and solved them, but I never found dificulties with something so basic from Mandrake's updating system before.

The car analogy is purely to demonstrate how serious I am about this particular matter. When I say "I bought a car", I am not talking about money. I am just considering that the distro's own software should work fine doing the very task it was meant to do.

You know what? This is getting ridiculous.

First I discover I have to upgrade my kernel because it can destroy my LG CD recorder, now this.

Mandrake 9.2 is clearly not capable of workng safe on my machine. I will change to another distro and try the next Mandrake version when it arrives. I work with this computer and I cannot afford to put my work aside to solve internal distro problems.

Best of luck to you all.

BS!